Members of the alliance will start selling power-line networking products by the middle of next year.

It was weighed down by drops in several computer networking companies after Intel cut prices on a competing networking product.

However, Lucent is not looking to fish its next generation of optical networking products out of the sea.

An Apple executive said the wireless networking products would be available in several weeks.

Much of the new networking products use a similar standard, which can transfer data up to 54 megabits a second, for smoother streaming.

A variety of different networking products have been made by HP.

The 2.4-gigahertz radio link operates at 11 megabits per second, about 10 times the speed of most home networking products.

This week, in fact, Dell introduced a line of 802.11 wireless networking products for its corporate computers.

A peer-to-peer networking product based on Windows is a potentially powerful market force.

This effort will bear fruit almost immediately, with the first such networking product expected in December.